Thank you for the warm welcome everyone. I am grateful for your replies to my question. Yes, this is a work comp case and I do have a vocational doctor assigned to me by Kaiser. The doc is only a primary care doctor and certainly not familiar enough with the spine to explain the results of my MRI to me in layman's terms. He has decided that my injury is not due to work, without the consensus of a specialist, by which I have spoken to my adjuster and the insurance has agreed to send me to a spine specialist, thank the Lord. I am a rigger by trade and was working in a scissor lift when I was hit in the face with a chain motor hook, weighing 5 lbs, which broke my nose, split my lip and left me with the giant goose eggs above both my eyes. While in the motion of being hit in the face, I was thrown against the rail on the lift and smacked my back at the T7 quite hard. I will check back later and share some more of the MRI report and also will check out the other groups ya'll referred me to, Thanks so much !
ANG